Natalie Bober comments on a few of her books:

Breaking Tradition: The Story of Louise Nevelson was cited in the New York Times by Hazel Rochman of the American Library Association as among the best of its genre being written for young people today. It was cited, also, by Beverly Kobrin in her book Eyeopeners! (Penguin Books, 1989) and in Literature and the Child (HBJ, 1989), by Bernice Cullinan. A chapter of Breaking Tradition was excerpted and included in Seascapes, a reading textbook published in 1989 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. In 1987 it was included in a bibliography prepared by the Ferguson Library of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

As an outgrowth of my biography of Thomas Jefferson, and in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson, I was invited to participate in the celebration that took place at Monticello in April 1993, and to speak there. I also conducted all-day workshops at Monticello for students and teachers at the invitation of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and the Monticello Education Department.

I was part of the Ken Burns PBS television documentary on Thomas Jefferson, which aired initially on February 18 and 19, 1997. My biography, Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain, I was told, (and I quote) "presented Jefferson in such accessible human terms that we felt your thoughts would help immeasurably in our struggle to know him." I was interviewed on camera, appearing as a "talking head," and served as a consultant throughout the project.

When the film was completed, I received a letter from the co-producer expressing their "profound gratitude for making Thomas Jefferson come alive in our presentation." She continued: "Without your sensitive and gracious presentation, I fear [Jefferson] would have remained a distant and somewhat wooden figure….Your presentation of him will extend to our audience an emotional connection that will reverberate for them long after viewing. As you know, Ken insists that history be felt as well as documented by date and event; you fulfill his deepest wish for this film."

My book, Countdown to Independence (Atheneum, 2001), presents a bi-focal Anglo-American View of the events leading up to the shocking revolution against the British Crown that has come to be known as the American Revolution. It focuses on the period 1760-1776, and addresses the question: What forces were at work that swept people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean into a conflict that ultimately severed the ties between Great Britain and her American colonies?

As my story weaves back and forth across the ocean, portraying scenes first in England and then in America, as they were perceived by those playing key roles in them, I attempt to capture the drama, the wit, the politics, and the manners of the generation that governed and lost the first British Empire, all the while doing full justice to the cause of the colonial Patriots. My aim is to help my readers to look at history with a fresh eye, and to help them to recognize that there is always more than one side to any story.

A revolution has been described as a change in human society so large that no one quite understands it, either at the time of its happening or subsequently. For the fifteen years between 1760 and 1775, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington and Concord, ideas were the weapons with which Americans and Englishmen waged a revolution. The actual war did not begin until both sides came to realize that only force could decide the issues that divided the empire. Those ideas - and that "revolution" – are the subject of Countdown to Independence.